It was all a lie. Secret bank accounts linking the Trump campaign to Russia. Clandestine back channels to Russian oligarchs. Secret Trump Tower servers communicating with Russia. Trump collusion with Russia during the 2016 Presidential election. It was all a lie. A fantasy not concocted by Russia to discredit the election or a new, dually elected President, but a lie concocted by the Hillary Clinton campaign, and aided by numerous private sector and government officials.
On Friday, Special Counsel John Durham, filed Government’s Motion to Inquire into potential conflicts of interest in the Michael Sussmann case. Durham previously indicted Sussmann pro providing false information to FBI General Counsel James Baker regarding his conflicts of interest in the Trump/Alfa Bank hoax. Sussmann pleaded Not-Guilty so there will be a trial at a future date unless Sussmann mysteriously winds up dead, which is not all uncommon for folks connected to the Clintons.
The filing shows Sussman and Rodney Joffe (internet and cybersecurity expert who had been offered the top USG Cybersecurity position by Hillary Clinton) met and communicated with another law partner, who was serving as General Counsel to the Clinton campaign. Perkins and Cole is the law firm of record for the Clinton campaign and the individual they met with is probably Marc Elias. Remember - this is July 2016. Rodney Joffe hired Sussmann to represent him in 2015 on an unknown matter between Joffe and the USG.
Joffe then used his natural placement and access to collect Trump Tower's internet traffic and information, which was not available to the public to provide to researchers. As Durham lays out in his filing, "Tech Executive-1 [Joffe] tasked these researchers to mine Internet data to establish 'an inference' and 'narrative' tying then-candidate Trump to Russia." Durham goes on to say "In doing so, Tech Executive-1 indicated that he was seeking to please certain 'VIPs,' referring to individuals at Law Firm-1 [Cole and Perkins] and the Clinton campaign." The group monitored Trump Tower, Trump's Central Park West residence, an unidentified health care provider, and eventually, the Executive Office of the President.
So, for those keeping score at home we now have the Hillary Clinton campaign leveraging an Internet Service Provider to not only monitor an opposing political campaign, but to "establish an inference" and "narrative."
The information was handed over to the FBI as part of the Trump/Russia collusion allegation.
If this wasn't bad enough, the monitoring continued AFTER the election. Durham's filing states the company Joffee worked for "had come to access and maintain dedicated servers" for the Executive Office of the President as "part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the EOP." So, here you have a Clinton-funded/directed internet surveillance campaign of a sitting U.S. President.
It's a twisted web to unweave in a short blog, so here are the facts you need to know:
1) Christopher Steele (the FBI source of the dossier) was contracted by opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which was represented at the time by - Perkins Cole. Perkins Cole also represented the Clinton campaign. Steele was the author of the infamous "Steele Dossier” which was later used by the FBI.
2) Sussmann provided information about supposedly "rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations." a second agency of the U.S. government" in 2017. It was alleged Trump and/or his associates were using these phones to communicate with Russian contacts. The Special Counsel offered “no support for these allegations.” These allegations were based off of DNS traffic from internet traffic. What Sussmann did not disclose to the “second agency of the U.S. government is between 2014-2017 over 3 million of these orginated with U.S. based IP addresses. Fewer than 1,000 of those originated from Trump Tower. Durham went on to state the lookups began prior to 2014, well before Trump was even a candidate for office. This detail was also omitted by Sussmann.
3) We need to know who in the U.S. government is "part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the Executive Office of the President."
4) Clinton Campaign Policy Advisor repeatedly put out statements on her behalf aboutt the Trump/Russia collusion. Her policy advisor? Current National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
5) Sussman told the “second agency of the U.S. government that he was not representing anyone when he made these allegations. As before, this is untrue. He was representing Joffe which he later admitted to under oath while testifying to Congress.
6) You need to Watch the Sussmann trial very closely. Sussmann is one of the few who met both with Joffee and the Clinton Campaign. He is a key individual in this conspiracy.
7) Anticipate an indictment for Rodney Joffe
Americans should be terrified. A political candidate for office used her deep connections in both the private sector and USG to paint her opponent as an agent of a foreign power. By unethical, and potentially criminal means, she was able to unleash the full power of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies against a private citizen and then again as a sitting President to the United States. A duly-elected President. Elected by you. Chosen by you to lead the country. A president who was accused of being a Russian Agent. A President who was investigated by a Special Counsel for over two years. An investigation which encompassed $32M, 19 lawyers, 42 FBI Agents, forensic accountants, intelligence analysts, 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, and 500 witnesses. They found - nothing. Even after House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff told the American public "I have seen the evidence" - the Special Counsel found nothing. When then Director, National Intelligence Richard Grenell told Adam Schiff to release the 53 interviews the House Intelligence Committee conducted during their own investigation, they were released - and none of them pointed to Trump/Russia collusion. Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, after two years of publicly stating he had seen the intelligence, told Congressional investigators “I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election.”
The narrative ripped this country apart for years. Destroyed the little trust Americans had in its institutions. Reputations and careers destroyed. Bankrupted. Publicly humiliated. It literally ruined people’s lives.
There is a lot of talk from both Republicans and Democrats about the “rule of law” and how the Constitution is under attack on various fronts. Watch who is silent about this. Take note. For they are the enemy. They are the ones who condone this and sanction it with their silence.
There must be a reckoning. The Republic will not last if there is not.
